Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The playing of the game of hazard; dicing; gaming.
- noun Rashness; temerity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
- noun rare Rashness; temerity.
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- noun obsolete
Gambling .
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Examples
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The issue of moral hazardry points but to one national leader and it is not Bobby Jindal, the governor of wretched Louisiana.
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The obsession of old age, with its physical decay ( "I look into my glass"), the inevitable division which leads to that isolation which the poet regards as the greatest of adversities ( "The Impercipient"), the tragedies of moral indecision, the contrast between the tangible earth and the bodyless ghosts, and endless repetition of the cry, "Why find we us here?" and of the question "Has some Vast Imbecility framed us in jest, and left us now to hazardry?"
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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